Reposted by geerussellDak @dak.bsky.social · 1hI hope I survive the zombie apocalypse long enough to see two zombies making out so I can yell ‘GET A TOMB’. 0255
Reposted by geerussellElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.theguardian.comControversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-BissauRecommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers 711669794
Reposted by geerussellWill Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The idea that you can politically go after ICE without implicating police or prisons in the public reckoning is a fantasy 061
Reposted by geerusselljasmine👻 @jazzybean.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026LET THE TEENS TRICK OR TREAT THEY ARE NOT TOO OLDstatic.klipy.comSpongeBob: Unfair Not Fair ProtestALT: SpongeBob: Unfair Not Fair Protest 12010
Reposted by geerussellceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap 152108462344
Reposted by geerussellKarthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Link to my book talk with Liaquat Ahamed--we talked railroads, bimetallism, capital in an age of globalization alternating between nationalism and transnationalism, the geopolitics of lending to developing countries. And I snuck in a dad joke (archival not new). www.youtube.com/watch?v=phNp...youtube.comBook Talk | 1873—The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern WorldYouTube video by Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft 1195
Reposted by geerussellMike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Harm reduction (Dems in office) is better than, well, harm, but I think this is one reason why many are smitten with Mamdani: rank-and-file Dems feel they don't always have to drag him kicking and screaming to do (sort of) the right thing. It's so exhausting having to fight your own side too. 2/x 092
Reposted by geerussellJaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.devatlas.jazco.devAtlasA living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours. 1171425424
Reposted by geerussellDouglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight 17124602612
Reposted by geerussellRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The BEST part of getting old (and there are many) is that you can ABSOLUTELY miss something wildly popular. Zooshas just flying by while you’re admiring someone’s sensible shoes or whatever. Bliss. 1182618212
Reposted by geerussellPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026When fascists win, centrists get to feel good about themselves because they are kinder and more tolerant than those people. When progressives win, centrists find themselves cruel and narrow minded by comparison, and can't bear that feeling. 7477129
Reposted by geerusselllauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points 646089989
Reposted by geerussellPatricia Pino @patriciapino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Greens propose to drop interest rates as the main inflation tool. So it's a good moment to ask why we discarded the world Kalecki knew (full employment as the aim), for monetary policy primacy, independent central banks & a buffer stock of unemployed labour. open.substack.com/pub/patricia...open.substack.comThe Political Aspects of UnemploymentWhy price stability does not require an army of the unemployed. 1118
Reposted by geerussellEdmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What's your favorite shade of green? 1. forgotten forest 2. witch liquor 3. mossy castle ruin 4. cosmic elder god 2211219
Reposted by geerussellDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text: 131105402
Reposted by geerussellkottke.org @kottke.org · 23/09/2026Engaging read on how the Bugs Bunny cartoon What’s Opera, Doc? was made. “To get the extra work done, Jones and his crew secretly shaved a couple weeks off other, easier films and faked their time cards. It was something they did on occasion.” [animationobsessive.substack.com]animationobsessive.substack.comWhy ‘What’s Opera, Doc?’ Looks Like ThatIt’s one of the really famous cartoons. If you’re reading this newsletter, you’ve probably watched it yourself. After almost 70 years, What’s Opera, Doc? endures. 314945
Reposted by geerussellRob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 22/09/2026Jason Benetti gets absolutely roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. 🤣 6776210
Reposted by geerussellSteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 161191533869
Reposted by geerussellkaranormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 19/09/2026pirates can't be taken to court, claims have to be settled in arrrrrbitration 212830
Reposted by geerussellthe thadadook @fungiblethadius.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I’m a much better reposter than poster 711049
Reposted by geerussellMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:thehandbasket.coRepublicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problemA spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same. 10182512699
Reposted by geerussellEamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is a subhed for the ages in the WSJ this morning: “Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others” 42979276
Reposted by geerussellAnil Dash @anildash.com · 14/09/2026The reason we say the GOP and MAGA are white supremacist movements is because they are. 214341
Reposted by geerussellmindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Just hacked into the subterranean mycelium network to listen in on secret mushroom conversations. Turns out the mushrooms have already been surveilling me for weeks. Just as I suspected. 211516
Reposted by geerussellSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe. 1293839752
Reposted by geerussellEveryone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026we do bins now #bins 418864
Reposted by geerussellutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 04/02/2024Bro… BRO… please tell me you did NOT just enshroud our local star within a dyson sphere… BRO… NOW THE NEIGHBORS WILL KNOW OUR POWER LEVEL BRO… un-shroud it RIGHT NOW so they think it was an anomalous space cloud event blocking their view of our system… BRO… UNSHROUND THE STAR RIGHT NOW BRO 281607378
Reposted by geerussellBecca Patterson @mreauow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There is so much that needs doing in these times. We don't really have time to be throwing people under the bus with the hope of currying favor with the ghouls who are making this world a hellscape. 0208
Reposted by geerussellBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It might seem that the existence of a Fetterman is an indictment of the senatorial system’s design but in fairness the Founders would have expected somebody who behaved like this to get killed in a duel by an irate constituent. 231354172
Reposted by geerussellDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Bananas video out of Equatorial Guinea, where 31 immigrants deported by the U.S. to a country where they have no ties have been locked up in a hotel with no travel documents. Local police threatened to shoot them. @gillianbrockell.com reports. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...prospect.org‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel - The American Prospect‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago. 10348230
Reposted by geerussellJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Here's a new blog post, arguing that the theory of comparative advantage is more useful for thinking about conflicting interest in trade rather than mutual gains. jwmason.org/slackwire/co...jwmason.orgComparative Advantage Revisited – J. W. Mason 4204
Reposted by geerussellEleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Good times for scholars of the long 19th century, now returning to join us again 03515
Reposted by geerussellYgrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 30/09/2024i pause in the middle of the street fight, only to eat a handful of candy corn and then return to fighting, noticeably more powerful 634458
Reposted by geerussellA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If you object to public-funded housing of homeless people, in the end the objection cannot be the cost, because we pay a premium to be cruel to homeless people. At the bottom of the objection will always sit dehumanizing cruelty and a desire for eradication. 72070431
Reposted by geerussellAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I sometimes forget how nice it is that there are no ads in this place 0687
Reposted by geerusselljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...nytimes.comTrump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools. 9041621392
Reposted by geerussellBrittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This reminded me of a line from @polphilpod.bsky.social's article: "If you live in a nice middle-class suburb, you don’t want to think of your neighbors as fascists who would have the state kill you if they could. Yet all the data in the world suggests at least some of them are."liberalcurrents.comFascists Really Believe ItMillions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory. 317450
Reposted by geerussellCanada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 31/08/2026NEW: MapQuest is currently the number one navigation app on the Apple App Store, overtaking Google Maps thanks to Google's decision to follow Trump's lead in renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America.nationalobserver.comMapQuest finds its way back to prominence thanks to uproar over Google Maps decisionMapQuest is currently the number one navigation app — and among the most popular apps overall — after Google renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America. 861601546
Reposted by geerussellUncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 30/08/2026raining cats and dogs sounds infinitely more pleasant than a baby shower 834796
Reposted by geerussellSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026In the 1780s and 90s George Washington kept his Philadelphia-based household staff enslaved despite Pennsylvania’s gradual abolition laws by trafficking them out of the state and back into the state to reset the clock every 6 months despite the fact that he had publicly supported the laws. 91240497
Reposted by geerussellCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/08/2026Centrists cannot bring people on the left "back in line." They have to quit it with this rhetoric. If they treat people on the left as a greater enemy than Trump, the thing that is going to happen is that people on the left will fucking fight them tooth and nail. Include me in that number. 8745150
Reposted by geerussellZoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Very cool - switching from gas to electric induction cuts kitchen temperatures by 10 degrees, cuts hob cleaning times from 24mins to 21 seconds, cuts energy use by 2/3rds (a 9k saving in one pub) and yes - wok hei is still possible www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comThe chefs turning down the heat by switching from gas to electricAs well as being quieter, cheaper to run and easier to clean, induction cookers can cut kitchen temperatures by up to 10C 816666
Reposted by geerussellDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I get why he made the video (it was cute) but it’s a fact that bicycle helmets are not designed to protect cyclists in the event of a collision with a car. We need to stop putting the onus on people doing the dying rather than people doing the killing. 1924333
Reposted by geerussellFun @funkelly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026this is one of my favorite visual jokes of all time. i think about it several times a week. 363013765
Reposted by geerussellKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Today is also the six month anniversary of my father’s death. While I was fighting the Washington Post, I was deep in grief. I hate that I can’t call him to tell him the news that I got my job back. But Daddy, wherever you are, I did it. I stood up for myself like you told me to do. 😭 1616539463
Reposted by geerussellBrian Romanchuk @brianromanchuk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We should channel our Commonwealth roots and call it “aluminium.” Refuse to sell it to the Americans unless they call it that. 0152
Reposted by geerussellRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...local12.comPolice request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in WalmartA police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart. 346108893650
Reposted by geerussellThe Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Post-LLM, we're probably going to share knowledge and collaborate more often in locked, gated communities that communicate with each other poorly and are hard to find. Big tech, and especially big AI, has poisoned the well too thoroughly for the open internet to fully recover. 910614
